Stationary washtub for laundries.



No. 657,308. Patented Spt. 4, 1900. E. C. BRUNNER.

STATIONARY WASHIUB FOR LAUNDRIES. (Application filed Dec. 29, 1899.5

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UNITED" STATES.

EDWARD osnunnnn,

PATENT ()FFICE.

on OL'EVELAND, OHIO.

STATIO'NARY WASH'l'UB FoR LAUNDRIES.

SPEGIFIQATIONforming part of Letters ratent No. 657,308, dated September 4, 1900.

' e A n eeien nee December 29,1899. Serial ne. 741,902. (No modeL') I To all whom it maey concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD C. BRUNNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stationary Washtubs for Laundries; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to stationary wash-' tubs for laundries and the invention consists of a washtub having the new features of construction and combinations of parts, substantially as shown and described,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washtub embodying and showing myinvention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the wringer-protectors hereinafter de scribed, and Fig. 4: is a perspective'view of one of the clips or clamps for locking the division-walls.

The tub and structure thus shown, both as a whole and in detail, has the usual front plate A, rear plate B, end plates 0, and bottom plate D, preferably of stone, and in this case has a single partition or division wall E, of which there may be one or several. In so far as these parts alone are concerned there is no novelty, and the novelty consists in the,

new way of connecting up and supporting said parts. Hitherto various and numerous expedients have been employed for this purpose, some of which are entirely practical and satisfactory so far as I know; but yet I have worked out and produced a style of construction which I believe to be not only new and thoroughly practical, but which possesses elements of simplicity, oheapness, and serviceability which make this tub exceptional in the artand, as I also believe, is a decided improvement in the art. First of all, then, attention is called to my novel method of binding the parts or plates of the tub together. These comprise at each end a T-shaped connecting member G, which is of strap metal in this instance, but maybe of the form of a common rod and has its three ends threaded and exthe cross connection.

tended through the ends or outside projections of the front and rear plates A and B and through the bottom plate D, and nuts on these threaded ends serve to tighten the said parts firmly together. there is a transverse strap or rod H at each end connecting the front and rear plates at their lower edge or bottom beneath the bottom plate D, making cross connections at top and bottom of the tub. The stem of the T member G extends down through the bottom D far enough to engage with this cross strap or rod H at its middle, and the nut h thereon presses against the strap H and produces a tition or division walls E are used, I tie the front and rear plates thereto and make a connecting part of it by means of clips J, which are constructed to engage over and upon the top edge of the walls E and to be firmly locked thereon by any suitable means, while the outer ends of the clips pass through the plates -A or B, as the case may be, and have nuts to tighten them up. I may also employ cross straps or rods at intervals between the ends of the tub at the bottom thereof to lock front and rear together, especially if division-walls are used.

Thus these rods would look the front and rear together against wall E at the bottom, while .the clips orclamps J lock them together at the top, using the divisionwall E to complete Again in laundry-tubs employing stone or slate slabs or plates there is always danger of the end plates being seriously damaged by the wringer which is attached thereto at each washing if not permanently, especially when the wash-woman is careless or reckless in the use of the wringer. For these reasons I have found it necessary to have a protector if the tub is to be preserved from injury, and to this end have put plate-protectors on the ends upon or over which the Wringer is seated and through which it bears upon the end plate. These protectors N are made of flatmetal developed into hook shape to engage over or upon the upper edge of the end plate with only an engaging exposure on the inside of the tub, but coming well down upon its outside, and its lower end is slitted or formed to be held down Then in addition to this on the arms pf the T member G Two of these protectors 'are'shownzas-used iat' eaeh end, and they serve every purpose, both of an edgerprotection and a side bearing against the stone'or slate to protect the stone or sla fl" If they were used It will be ash W er one-al ae 999 6.3

noticed, now especially; that this.

tub has no framework as suchon' which the slabs or platesformi'ng' the tub proper are either supported or by which they are united and that l use the slabsor plates themselves as the framework, While the tie straps or members here and there bind them together. Neither is thereany injurious metallic expo-- sure by this construction.

The term tie rod or strap or bar as used herein is understood to mean the'connections between the front and rear plates or slabs and mean the same parts whichever term isused.

It will be noticed that in the present construction the top edges of the end plates or slabs-O and ofthe division-wall E are recessed *Qrnotched of a depth equal to the thickness of the engaging members Jand N, Figs. 3 and 4:, which brings their top surfaces flush with the edges of said plates and wall and affords a shouldered engagementfor the clips-J, particularly of sufficient strength anddurability Q a par s"; pe manentlyetogether with jp b .s By placing the protectors relatively, as here shown, they answer for-all the popular sizes f in: 1; -stationary washtii-b a tie rod {through the ends-of the front and rear slabs beneaththebottom ofthe tub, a'central substan'ti'aHyT shaped me'mbe'rinone piece having'its lower end through the bottom of the tub, and engaged withsaidtie-rod and the -arms of' said member uniting the front and Ereanslabs atthe toplof the tub outside the -end thereof, all said connecting parts being wholly outside-the end: ofizthe tub} substanitially-asfdescribed 2. n a tab the tie-rodsat'tlie end'sand'top thereof; and protectors for the end walls of thetub to guard against inj ury-by' the wringer,

said protectors engaged with said rods at their outer ends, substantially as described.

Witness my hand to the foregoing specification this 12th day of December, 1899.

EDWARD C; BRUNNER.

5 "Witnessesr V H. E. MUDRA,

R. B-.' MOSER. 

